Come, My Soul, Thou Must Be Waking
- Words:
- Friedrich R. L. von Canitz
- Music:
- Franz Josef Haydn
Sheet music
- 1Come, my soul, thou must be waking.Now is breakingO’er the earth another day:Come, to Him Who made this splendorSee thou renderAll thy feeble strength can pay.
- 2Gladly hail the sun returning,Ready burningBe the incense of thy pow’rs;For the night is safely ended,God hath tendedWith His care thy helpless hours.
- 3Pray that He may prosper everEach endeavor,When thine aim is good and true;And that He may ever thwart theeAnd convert thee,When thou evil wouldst pursue.
- 4Mayest thou on life’s last morrow,Free from sorrow,Pass away in slumber sweet;And, released from death’s dark sadness:Rise in gladnessThat far brighter sun to greet.
- 5Only God’s free gifts abuse not,Light refuse not,But His Spirit’s voice obey;Thou with Him shalt dwell, beholdingLight enfoldingAll things in unclouded day.Amen.
In the hymnals
- The words are in 248 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.